Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Increasing the number of children with mental handicaps who will have access to education in mainstream schools. Creating an inclusive environment in schools and in community. Ensuring the rights of the disabled and creating an accepting society.

Project Message

My daughter Payal, who was in Special Education, now attends a big school for normal children. When people ask me, 'Is Payal in a Special School?' I say she goes to the same school as other children.
- Usha, mother of mentally handicapped child

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Padma Rama Rao,
Senior Coordinator, Dwarka Center
Samadhan, Human Resource Center
Pocket II, Sector II, Dwarka
New Delhi, 110 075
India
91-11-2507 3137
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Learn more about Samadhan and the project team.

Samadhan's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Early Intervention for Mentally Disabled Infants

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Education.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 19, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 01, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

Update on Mentally Handicapped Children's Project

By Pramila Balasundaram - Founder-Director of Samadhan, July 19, 2007 05:03 PM

This project has seen considerable improvements both in expansion of services and greater number of children reached. The activities we had planned to quote from our existing proposal were to “Identify children with mental handicap of primary school age, and establish a Resource Facility in our Center to prepare them for admission into normal schools and also to train staff involved in both our center and normal schools in its implementation.” However we found that the mainstream schools were far from receptive to the concept of inclusion and were unprepared to change mindsets and traditional ways of teaching going back to many years. So we have added new dimensions to our delivery of this service . The first is a survey to ascertain the readiness of mainstream schools to receive our inputs and the second was to expand our own early intervention services by adding a Preschool , a Crecche and a one to one service for the severely mentally handicapped child and the mother.

Separate write ups are added which will give a more comprehensive view of the changes made .We give the results of the survey so that the situation is more fully understood by our donors. Problems seem unsurmountable but if we motivate even a maximum of three to five schools as models replication will definitely follow. And our own liaison with the Delhi government will be that much more productive.

Please click below to read more detailed reports and updates on this project, including a success story about a child Samadhan has helped!

Attachments:

• Project update and survey results
• Preschool in Dakshinpuri
• Success story of Sneha!

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